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Wednesday, March 11, 2020
CRDF Global – along with more than 900 government agency representatives, advocates, and leaders in the international exchange field – attended the Global Ties U.S. 2020 National Meeting from January 22-25 at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel in Washington, DC. The four-day conference hosted over 50 sessions examining the role of professional exchange programs in advancing U.S. foreign...
Learn moreIn Fighting Disease Outbreaks like Coronavirus, Don’t Forget About the Health Workers
Thursday, February 20, 2020
At the start the Ebola outbreak in 2014, I traveled to West Africa to lead a CRDF Global project on emergency response and preparedness. I walked into an abandoned hospital in the middle of Liberia, where I found two brave nurses delivering a baby. I asked them about the risks they faced, and they replied, “Ebola doesn’t stop babies and the need for us.” It was there that...
Learn moreHappy International Day of Women and Girls in Science!
Tuesday, February 11, 2020
CRDF Global is extremely proud of the contributions of women and girls around the world to science. Diversity and gender equality in science is critical to producing the high-quality research needed to solve our world’s major development challenges in areas like public health, food security, and peace and security. However, women’s groundbreaking contributions to these areas have been...
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